SNCF STRIKE. A strike call has been launched for Wednesday July 6, the day before the first day of the summer school holidays, to demand a wage increase.
[Mis à jour le 4 juillet 2022 à 07h30] The CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and CFDT unions have called on SNCF railway workers to go on strike this Wednesday, July 6 to denounce “growing inflation and the absence of a general increase since 2014”. If detailed traffic forecasts have not yet been announced, this strike could have a big impact on trains on the eve of the major departures for the summer school holidays which officially begin the following evening.
“The notice as filed today is valid for one day,” Axel Persson, Secretary General CGT Cheminots de Trappes told BFM TV. “On the other hand, it is obvious that if the management does not offer solutions, answers that live up to our demands, we will ask ourselves the question at some point, how the movement will continue, but it is too early to tell you when it will continue, in what form it will be, will it be the next day or at the start of the school year? It’s too early to tell you, “he continued. .
Asked about this SNCF strike of July 6 on the plateau of Public Senate, SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou was rather reassuring, indicating that a salary increase was under discussion. “When we look at the notice that was filed by the unions, it is a day, a single day. Maybe it will not take place, we will discuss to try to avoid it If it takes place, it will last only one day, the big departures which follow are not impacted, it is important”.
This SNCF strike can impact both mainline trains (TGV, TER) and smaller lines (Transilien and RER managed by SNCF). If the detailed line-by-line forecasts have not been communicated, we already know the times of the disturbances which will take place from Tuesday July 5 from 7 p.m. until Thursday July 7 at 8 a.m.
The CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and CFDT unions are on strike on Wednesday July 6 to demand “measures to catch up with wages for inflation”, but also “a general increase in wages and the revaluation of bonuses” or even “a revaluation of all allowances, gratuities and indemnities”. On June 16, they would have already made a “request for immediate consultation” on the revaluation of wages with the president of the SNCF Jean-Pierre Farandou but “the management refused to receive the trade union organizations”, explains the press release. Bilateral meetings are ongoing.